An agent checks his lecturer partner's references against the real sources
Built an LLM-backed reference checker for his partner, a lecturer: an agent reads each cited source and checks the reference is correct and not hallucinated.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 988 ideasThe AI gave his 3D-printed Frankenstein head a console, an API and over-the-air updates
Used the AI to add a network management console, REST API, clock hands, NTP, sleep mode and OTA updates to a 3D-printed animated Frankenstein head.
Organise my entire computer — 9,412 files, years of mess
A non-developer gave the AI his whole home folder with one rule — look first, touch nothing until he said yes. It inventoried 9,412 files, found the chaos concentrated in 312 files across his desktop, Documents and a forgotten 'Misc' folder, and sorted them into six folders named the way he talks (Letters, Money, House, Photos, Travel, Not Sure), renaming files so they can be read without opening them and deleting duplicates only with permission; finding one photo went from 23 minutes to 4 seconds.
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My agent makes my office football pool picks every week
Commenting on the Top 20 post, he says he is in an office football pool where you rank games by how sure you are of the outcome, and he kept forgetting his picks and found it a chore. He gave the AI his login and they worked out rules together: The AI makes his picks each week based on Vegas point spreads and analyst information. The pool site has an awkward interface, and he says the AI handled it well.
The AI set up a daemon that syncs my Mastodon posts into Obsidian
Over the weekend he had the AI set up a daemon on his Mac mini that syncs all of his Mastodon posts to his Obsidian vault. Now he can search his own posts on all of his devices.
The AI proactively pitched a column idea after reading his Messages database: it
Inc. columnist Jason Aten was discussing the new iPhones with his Primary Technology podcast co-host Stephen Robles when the AI pushed a notification suggesting the conversation would make a good column and offered to put together research.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
His AI got him off spam call lists and the calls dropped
A few days ago he had his AI take him off spam call lists. Since then the amount of spam calls he gets has dropped a lot.
Build 'agentbridge' in six hours so the AI can save files to my computer
A user in the AI Facebook group posted on Oct 18 that the AI could not save files directly to his computer the way the AI could, so rather than buy a subscription he built his own bridge in about six hours. The AI can now write straight to his local files, compatible with his existing agent stacks, and he published the tool open-source on GitHub.
An LLM cleaned a few thousand page titles in his search index, picked after a model shootout
An LLM cleaned up a few thousand page descriptions and titles in his personal search engine index; GLM 5.3 Flash chosen after a shootout between models.
Built a print-ready novel activity packet with answer key at 11pm
At 11 p.m., a teacher's the AI built her a complete print-ready activity packet for the novel her class is reading — answer key included. It also sends her a daily morning briefing drawn from her calendar and email.
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